Doctor Sleep (2019)

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Originally Posted by AFFanAttic

Sir. This recurring tone and sentiment is insufferable.

Seriously. Jeez. We get it, you think kids should be invulnerable in movies cause horror has to be safe.

I thought it was uncomfortable and went on for a long time and was also NOT gratuitous. They never at any point show what's actually being done to him, there's lots of crosscutting to other locations and characters during it because it's such a pivotal event in the movie, there's no gore, and it's the point at which that traveling cadre of freaks is actually made out to be a terrifying threat that you want to see killed. They're just kind of whimsically weird and generically evil before. If that scene wasn't there, the stakes would have felt much lower. It's all about character development, it is also by far the most effective horror scene in the movie, and if you can't handle that but are fine with adults being gorily and graphically chopped up in other movies then I am very confused. Sure, it's worse when kids die in real life than adults. This isn't real life.